Protection Collection

WW2 - Flower-Class Corvette in heavy seas - Atlantic Convoy
WW2 - Weather hazards which the convoy escorts in the Atlantic Ocean have to face in Winter - a Flower-Class Corvette, of 930 tonnes, being thrown high out of the water by a heavy sea. Date: 1943

Under the Protection of the Gods: A Fantasy of ancient and Modern Egypt. A drawing by Howard Carter showing a hoopoe in the crack of a wall which has ancient Egyptian paintings

Judaism. Divine protection. Amulets. Jewish Museum Berlin. G
Judaism. Divine protection. Amulets. Often consisted of scrolls written in Hebrew and the texts were combined with motifs geom?tircos or magical figures

Shanghai, international settlements 1932
Shanghai - the storm centre: an international settlement under the protection of fourteen powers, the chief scene of the Sino-Japanese conflict

Bryant and May safety match matchbox label
Bryant and May special safety match matchbox label with prize medals and stating protection from fire and are not poisonous Date: c. 1910s

LFCDA-LFB Fire Rescue tenders
The 1990s saw a new breed of fire rescue tenders, large and small, introduced into the London Fire Brigade. The heavy rescue unit carried a comprehensive range of cutting and spreading equipment

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

Good Luck Talisman
A Chinese talisman featuring the immortal Liu-Hai, used in families for protection and good luck : includes the ying and yang and the eight trigrams

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Just Wright by David Wright
A young woman in a red dress with a plunging neckline and a large, wide brimmed hat to protect her English rose complexion from the sun, contemplates the viewer with a slightly arrogant air

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, Safety First. A Cricket forecast for 1922 showing the new safety equipment for playing cricket, which is health and safety gone mad

Chromolithograph Devotional Card - Guardian Angel
Chromolithograph Devotional Card - Protection provided by your Guardian Angel. 1911

Worshipping the God of Smallpox, India
Under the Hindu faith, if you want protection against getting smallpox, pray to Shitala, the Goddess of Smallpox

Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden Market
Mrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips

Fire Safety Hop Pickers
Notice to Hop-pickers giving advice as to fire prevention and what to do in case of a fire. Issued by Fire Offices Committee Fire Protection Association

Daniel in Lions Den
Nebuchadnezzar casts Daniel into a den of lions, with the intention that they would eat him; instead, they let him be, recognising that he is under Gods protection

Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Sekhmet, the lion-headed g
Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Ptolemaic Dynasty. 2nd century B.C. Dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Haroeris

Eye of Horus. False door of Senenmut. Egypt
False door of Senenmut, architect and official government. Detail of the Eye of Horus. Sandstone. New Kingdom. 18th Dynasty. 1480-1460 BC. West Thebes. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Two women police officers in gas masks, London, WW2
Two women police officers in gas masks in London during the Second World War. One of them is Florence Bragg (joined November 1936). Date: 1940s

LFCDA-LFB Heavy fire Rescue tenders
The 1990s saw a new breed of fire rescue tenders, large and small, introduced into the London Fire Brigade. The heavy rescue unit carried a comprehensive range of cutting and spreading equipment

LFCDA-LFB Fire Rescue tenders
The 1990s saw a new breed of fire rescue tenders, large and small, introduced into the London Fire Brigade. The heavy rescue unit carried a comprehensive range of cutting and spreading equipment

Queen Elizabeth II visit coal mine
Queen Elizabeth II dressed in protective white overalls to make her first descent into a coal-mine at Rothes Colliery, Fife, Scotland in 1958

LCC-LFB Fireman in his fire kit with new cork helmet
A London fireman in his fire kit, including the new style compressed cork helmet with its LFB crest, which replaced the traditional brass helmets used since the days of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade

London Salvage Corps at work with salvage sheets
The London Salvage Corps were financed by the Insurance Companies and were not part of the London Fire Brigade. However they operated in concert with the Brigade

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Jesus the Good Shepherd

Aberdeen, Scotland - Heading out for a drive in a lovely open-top car. Note the elaborate face covering a scarf assembly swathing the lady passengers head, protecting her from the elements! Date: 1903

Princess Louise Home, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
The Princess Louise Home at Kingston Hill was run by the National Society for the Protection of Young Girls. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Beetham Larola suntan lotion 1940
Sun tan without sun burn. To suntan becomingly yet without painful sunburn, the skin should always be bathed with larola. Exposure to sun

Policeman and policewoman with gas masks
A policeman and a policewoman wearing civilian gas masks outside Harrow Road Police Station (X Division) before the outbreak of World War Two. The respirator is contained in the canvas bag

Dog Gas Mask
Gas masks for dogs. A new gas mask for the protection of dogs which is a bag of impregnated flannel with a mica window secured by an elastic band. Used during World War II

Richard III and the sons of Edward IV
Richard III, as Duke of Gloucester, orders the sons of the late King Edward IV be parted from their mother, Elizabeth Woodville. 1480s

Fitters local protection
Photograph: Fitters local protection. Shows a White scout car fitted with a gun and a number of men lying on the ground aiming machine guns to the left of the photograph

Queen Margaret with son and robber
Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, fleeing into a forest after the Battle of Hexham (15 May 1464, Wars of the Roses) with her son, Prince Edward, meets a robber and asks for protection

Iraq threat to Kuwait, 1961
Page from The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1961 reporting on the tensions in Kuwait after the Iraqi leader General Kassem had claimed Kuwait should be part of Iraq

Tampax advertisement, 1965
Go, Girl, Go! Advertisement for Tampax tampons from the 1960s encouraging women to join millions of young moderns this very month ! Date: 1965

Waitresses wearing gas masks, WWII
Waitresses in a popular London restaurant going about their duties during the early weeks of the Second World War, with gas masks in a tin container worn like a bustle at the back of their waistband

At the Oval / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper bats at the Oval against Australia, dressed in medieval armour for protection

Vikings Sail to England
Vikings crossing the North Sea to attack England, with three vessels lashed together for protection

Man with broken umbrella stands in pouring rain
Man in raincoat, hat and galoshes standing in the middle of a field in pouring rain holding up a broken umbrella for protection. (John Turner self-portrait.) Date: 1930s

American soldiers shake hands w. Russians River Elbe, 1945 W
American soldiers of the First Army shake hands with Russian counterparts as the two sides meet at Torgau on the River Elbe, 1945 World War II

Development of trench warfare in France by Matania
Protecting the man and armouring the trench. French soldiers wearing the new steel helmet holding an armoured trench during a violent German artillery bombardment

Suit of full armour, mid-15th century, as worn during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). Date: mid-15th century

Crossbow-man (right), pavisier (man firing from behind an oblong shield or pavise, bottom), archer with bow and arrow (left), and the standard of Richard, Earl of Warwick (top)

Fratelli della Misericordia, brothers of Mercy, Italy
Vintage 19th century photograph: Fratelli della Misericordia, brothers of Mercy, catholic fraternity estblished in Italy in the 19th century to take care of the sick

WW2 - The Motor Launches of E-Boat Alley. (2/2) Date: 1942

WW2 - Firing a depth charge at a u-boat from a corvette
WW2 - (1/3) Corvettes and Convoys - the little ships which are grappling with the u-boat menace. Firing a depth charge at a submerged submarine from a corvette - officers scan the sea for signs of

Woman in white dress, pink fichu and corsage, pink bonnet-chapeau. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Carrache after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les Modes Parisienne sous le

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